No matter where you are in the world escaping the closet isn’t easy. Try it in Ukraine.

Equality March – Kiyv, Ukraine, 2019-06-23
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Upon arriving in Ukraine nearly two months ago, many of my stories published by LGBTQ Nation have been about achievement; tales of heroic exploits and rapid progress. And it was beautiful to cover them. Pride and strength emanated from each person featured.

This is not one of those stories.

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I’ve been connecting with the vast fraternity of gay Ukrainian men that stretches across the entirety of the country and the other day I got a message from an unknown sender. Without an introduction, they wrote that they had seen me reaching out to others on Grindr for interviews and were wondering how my response had been.

After some brief back and forth, he told me his name. A name I can’t repeat.

The person who began the correspondence was petrified, is petrified, of being gay. And even more than the internal fear over his sexuality, was what society would think.

As his story unfolded, a familiar tale tumbled out…

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